Headteacher
Beal Vale Primary School, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL2 7SYThis job expired on 28 March 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
1st September 2025
Closing date
28 March 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
10 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £70,293-£83,464 (dependent on experience)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Has a clear commitment to the development of the whole child
- Will drive forward teaching and learning so all our children can reach their full potential
- Will be committed to the safeguarding and well-being of all children
- Is a strategic, creative and innovative thinker with outstanding leadership and management skills
- Is a good team player who wants to enthuse and involve the people around them
- Has the ability to adapt to an ever-changing educational landscape
- Has excellent communication skills at all levels
- Is able to work collaboratively with all stakeholders
- Is able to drive forward school improvement
- To collaborate positively with other schools within the Trust
- Will work with the Trust CEO to strengthen the primary offer and to identify and work with other schools who are considering joining the Trust
What the school offers its staff
- Enthusiastic, well-behaved children who are keen to learn and are proud of their school
- An extremely hard working, committed and high-quality team of staff
- An active, strong and supportive governing body and trust board
- Close links with the local authority and other local schools within the wider network.
Further details about the role
The children, parents, staff and governors of Beal Vale Primary School are seeking to appoint a passionate and inspirational Headteacher to lead our great school. The current Headteacher who has been with the school since 2021 has been successfully promoted to a three-form entry school. One of the key areas for the new Headteacher is to maintain the positive position of the school within the local community and continue to promote the school, using a range of means, to ensure that we remain one of the local schools of choice.
You will either be a current, serving Headteacher, Deputy or Assistant Headteacher in the UK looking for an exciting new challenge. You will have a solid understanding of how technology can be used to enhance delivery of a school’s curriculum.
Beal Vale Primary School is a single form entry school that has community at its heart and values the individual. We want our children to be confident in their own abilities and to reach their fullest potential in all areas of life and development. We nurture a supportive community where every child and adult are worthy of understanding and respect.
In 2019, the Governors agreed to convert the school to academy status, joining a multi-academy trust alongside a successful and very popular secondary school with whom we work closely. We are currently at an exciting stage of the Trust’s journey and are looking to strengthen collaboration and to further opportunity for both pupils and staff.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Beal Vale Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 194 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Beal Vale Primary School website
- Email address
- g.buckley@bealvaleprimary.com
- Phone number
- 01617707350
Overview of Beal Vale Primary
We are a mixed primary school for children between the ages of 4-11. Our school has community at its heart and values the individual.
We want our children to be confident in their own abilities and to reach their fullest potential in all areas of life and development. We nurture a supportive community where every child and adult is are worthy of understanding and respect.
School Ethos and Values
The Governors and Staff of Beal Vale Primary School believe that we provide the vital transition from home to the outside world, and another step in the learning process which begins the moment a child is born. We believe that Learning is for Life.
Our school motto is:
Learning is for Life, Enjoy the Journey!
We hope to lay the foundation for academic learning, fostering a love of knowledge and a desire to achieve that gives all children the best possible learning opportunities, matched to their individual needs, within a happy and safe environment.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all.
We recognise and value diversity within our school, community and the wider world.
Whilst academic achievement is important, we recognise our role in developing the “whole child”. Therefore, we aim to promote not just intellectual growth but his/her physical, social, moral, spiritual, emotional, creative and aesthetic development, as well as raising self-esteem, encouraging a sense of responsibility, initiative, and self-discipline.
As a school we continually strive to improve and aim to prepare our pupils to make a positive and responsible contribution to life in our ever-changing and increasingly technological world.
We aim to develop a strong partnership with parents and encourage all our pupils to develop as citizens of the school and wider community.
Arranging a visit to Beal Vale Primary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email g.buckley@bealvaleprimary.com.
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